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DPI Aware mouse move across screens
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How to restore backup #368

Closed stom66 closed 3 months ago

stom66 commented 3 months ago

I made a backup of my config which resulted in a JSON file in an archive LittleBigMouse.Export.gz.

Today, LBM has lost all settings about all of my monitors.

How do I restore the backup config?

mgth commented 3 months ago

You cannot, the file is only for debugging purpose. The configuration is in the registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mgth\LittleBigMouse

You may save and restore this key.

The reason it's not loaded might be that your configuration does not match any layout in there. Maybe one monitor added or removed. Then you have to set it again. but you should keep monitors dimensions.

stom66 commented 3 months ago

Thank you for the reply.

I had replaced one of my monitors recently. The other monitor did keep their dimensions, but the overall layout was lost.

Some way to partially restore the previous config, keep values which haven't changed (eg, the position of remaining monitors relative to each other) or view the data within the context of the software might be useful.